Notices by Dirk Eibach (de@noc.social), page 4

@mntmn surgery on the reform has started

@mntmn Just modified the keyboard firmware on my MNT Reform, so that the Ctrl-Key is in its traditional place. It was really a blast, you can even do the flashing from within the MNT Reform with a script, no additional hardware required. Amazing, that is really Open Hardware Power at its best.

Flash support for gprobe just got merged to radare2: https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/pull/22371! Thanks @pancake for support and the kind words.
Thanks @mntmn for this nice hacking project 😃.
Now the HDMI to eDP adapter for https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform-cm4-processor-module-adapter can finally be manufactured using open source tools only.
One more step for OpenHardware.

@mntmn @pancake flashing STDP chips with the radare2 gprobe plugin is working now 🥳. No more Windows vendor tool required. Some details to take care for before the merge request.

@mntmn Some more bugfixing, including the more obscure termios flags for translating between CR and LF.
Now the STDP reboots after some seconds of running flasher code 🤔

@mntmn Flasher is finally stable now. The secret is to do a reset 0 before starting it. Maybe I should have followed the example script literally. Doh.

@mntmn Debug time here 😊

@mntmn After fixing some endianess issues fInally reading FlashID 0xEF15 🥳

I am still a bit overwhelmed with joy from bringing up the Acontis EtherCAT master stack on my brand new MNT Reform system with LS1028A processor module in just one day. The total experience of working with this system is so pleasant that it is really hard to describe. Lukas Hartmann has really put a lot of effort in polishing and it pays off. I have worked with a lot of evaluation systems in the past, PowerPC, arm, x86. But this is really a different league. @mntmn

@mntmn Can you check what the vendor tool reads as a flashid?

@mntmn @pancake So talking to the chip via gprobe works nicely. I can upload and run the flash loader. The flashid command gets executed, but it returns 0xffff. That seems odd.

Starting some hacking with the MNT Reform HDMI to eDP converter. Time to fire up radare2. @mntmn @pancake

@mntmn Thing of beauty, joy forever 😉

@mntmn probably one of our apprentices will enjoy the challenge

@mntmn good job 👍

@mntmn guess I'll have to do the same on my board😳

@mntmn Just throw one of the non-working into my package and I will give it a try,
😉

@mntmn @maehw sadly I never got these documents so I couldn't include it in the plugin

@mntmn is one of them - by pure chance - going to Haiger?

@mntmn is our reform finally coming close?